Google's Gmail Service Suffers Another Shutdown Glitch

SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc.'s e-mail service went down for an undetermined number of users on Tuesday, an embarrassing glitch that follows a more serious global outage less than a month ago.

On Tuesday, the Mountain View, Calif.-based Internet giant said it had fixed most of the problems with its popular Google Mail service but that "a small subset of users" could remain without access to their accounts until early morning Pacific Time on Wednesday.